Local record stores ready for Black Friday

Tuesday

Nov 26, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By RICK de YAMPERTrick.deyampert@news-jrnl.com

Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, U2 and other music artists will be part of the frenzy of Black Friday shopping this year.Black Friday, that traditional mega-shopping day following Thanksgiving, has made way for a companion tradition: Record Store Day Black Friday.It's a day when record collectors across the nation can score new but rare vinyl — releases that this year include classic rockers such as the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead, modern artists such as Lady Gaga and Queens of the Stone Age, and lesser-known groups such as Vitamin String Quartet (performing Radiohead) and Puscifer.For Record Store Day Black Friday, record companies and music artists join to celebrate independent record stores around the country by fueling those retailers with rare releases — mostly new vinyl releases (and a few CDs) produced in limited quantities.Some of the releases are expanded, reconfigured and-or remixed versions of previously issued recordings (such as Nirvana's “In Utero”), while others are new material (such as U2's “Ordinary Love”).A list of releases can be found online at recordstoreday.com. Collectors should keep in mind that not every store will be stocking each and every item.Three area independent record stores once again will be stocking a stash of Record Store Day rarities this Friday:Groovy Records, 212 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29. For information, call owner Jerry Schafer at 386-873-4802.Steve's Downtown Music, 108 S. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29. For more information, call owner Steve Chmielewski at 386-734-3331.Atlantic Sounds, 138 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, will be open 12:01 a.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29, then from 6 a.m. to approximately midnight Friday. For more information, call 386-258-1420.“I'm going to be here until I drop,” owner Mike Toole said with a hearty laugh. The annual event is “just a fun day,” he added.Atlantic Sounds will have bands performing beginning at 7 p.m. Friday.